by Shawn Robare | Jul 11, 2026 | Read
A million years ago (re: April of 2020) I was presented with an unlikely Monster Squad Mystery™ that set a fire under the collector that dwells inside of me. I wrote about the initial bits of the mystery before, but to summarize, a very cool mutual on social...
by Shawn Robare | Jul 3, 2026 | Read
A few weeks ago I wrote a piece about my experience getting into the music of Elliott Smith, specifically how I was afraid of approaching his art through the veil of his legacy and the heartbreaking end to his story. I was able to get past the fine details, unfocusing...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 20, 2026 | Read
My wife Jaime and I received a very awesome gift this past week when one of our buds on Bluesky offered to let us re-home a bunch of his TVGuide doubles, specifically almost the entirety of the 1983 issues. I had a trip digging through all of these old guides, scoping...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 17, 2026 | Read
I’ve been writing about pop culture and collecting for 20 years as of this past Spring and though I’ve skirted around the concept of obsession as a driver of collecting, I’ve never focused specifically on it. Over the past few years, I’ve managed to curb the majority...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 13, 2026 | Read
This weekend the wife and I took the kids to an evening screening of the new Masters of the Universe flick and I was both heartened to see the franchise treated so well, and kind of sad to see that the filmmakers kind of missed the point of one of my favorite...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 11, 2026 | Read
I first stumbled upon the work of Elliott Smith a few years ago while reading the oral history of the New York millenium music scene by Lizzy Goodman titled Meet Me in the Bathroom. Specifically, there’s an anecdote by Stuart Lupton of the band Johnathan Fire*Eater...
